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Letter: Letters : Nature's aspirin

Published 5 October 1996

From Oliver Sedlacek

Address not supplied

With regard to the safety of alternative medicines, (Letters, 10 August, p 49
and 31 August, p 46) I find it worrying that “natural” pain relief remedies made
from willow bark are sold without mention of the fact that they contain
aspirin.

Some people who react badly to aspirin have doubtless tried these remedies as
an alternative.

Issue no. 2050 published 5 October 1996

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